Artificial-bait holder



. Patented J'a'n. Vla 1931 (UNITED fsTATEs AnTI'rIcIAL-Bnxm HoIjgDE'n/I Appncatioamea April 18,

:This'invention relates to holders for art- 55. are then flattened against' eachy other and v Vficialbaits and has for-lts object to'provide Lrlvets *or otherfastening* means 6 passed such a device which is simple and inexpenslve.

' yin construction, and which will retain the bait inl position within the container without the use of a closure as found in prior devices. Another object of the invention res1des m .the provision of a bait holder of transparent material which not only serves to display the baitwithout removal from the holder but also automatically grips the bait and'- retains it in proper position for display or inspection. A further object of the invention consists in the construction of a bait holder which provides ample means for circulation of air to dry the baits and also alfords Vmeans to facilitate removal of the bait from the holder.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be'apparent from thefollowing'description taken in connection with the'accompanying drawing; in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder with a lure mounted therein.

Figure 2 is a sectional viewstaken on line L2-2 of Figure 1.

, Figure 3 is a cross sectional view through the holder with the lure removed; and Figure4 -is a plan view of the blanky from which the container is formed.

Referring to the vdrawing in greater de-'L tail,,the numeral 1 indicates the body of a lure or artificial bait to which is attached 'gang hooks 2. This lure is of conventional form and is represented herein merely'to indiy cate the manner in which any type of art1-.

ficial bait or lure may be positionedV within the container or holder to be described.

' 'The bait holder'as depicted herein is shown as formed from a sheet 3 of transparent revsilient material such as celluloid, and While it is preferablethat the materialbe trans- I parent in order to permit an inspection of the artificial bait without removing the same material.

from the container, nevertheless the holder may be made of a sheet of opaqueI resllient The sheet B of celluloid or the like is folded or doubled upon itself so .as to bring vits lon gitudinal edges 4 and 5 into contact as indicated in Figures l, 2 and 37.' The sldes 4A and 'I edges? lv and-5 the* container will assnme the KENT mammas, or Lrmglonrothrough both edges so as 'to securelyflock these w edges: to, ;ether. The fsheetafterlbeing"folded and sec'ured" assumes the substantially Toval- 4crosssectional shapeas indi'cated in Figure 3.* :As thus fair described, a lcontainer-ispro- I 'vide'df offsubstantially oval I shape and which f is'open-at 'its opposite ends. It'is desira-ble, althoughfnot absolutely essential, that onev end -of the "container jbe substantially smaller thanIthe :other'so asto'preve'nt thelure from being careles'sly pushed entirely' through the container. For this purpose theL blank '5 V'is shown'ashaving itsedgesa and 5 b'eveled off as indicated byth'e numeral 7 (F i'gui'es land fl). -Thus when the-rivetsor otherA fastening means yare' passedj through the Contactingv generalv Outline:L as' iindicfated'- in'v Figure 1, 'so as to provide'.arel'ativelysmall opening8-at v 'the lower end of thefigu're' and a larger .open-i ing 9 at the top thereof. f 'Obviously, this same relative proportion'between the sizes of the *two openings 'of the holderfcouldbe -provvided-.w'itha rectangular'blank, it only being 1 necessary that the line3 of fastening vmeans be inclined toward th'e'fold Lor looped portion f the-container adjacent'one'end'thereof i In operation, :the 'cor'rtaine'r a's shown [in LFigure 'isreadyto receivel the artificialbait 1. As :the 'baitfis forced'into th'efcontainer the side:fwalls'thereof* are 'spread apart as *i shown in Figure2 and iffou'nd desirable this spreading or'bulg-ing of the side walls ofi-the lcmtainermay be brought about by,squeefzi-ngV toward each otherithe-*two edgesof tli'e'con'- 'tainer, and the lure then all'owedt'o drop into i the container-q 'After- Lpressure is reliev'ed from the edgesofthe container the resilie'n'cy;

of the material wll 'cause the same-tof con-k.,

tract'orkflatten 'out the side walls of th'elcon;

thei bait within thel container and Velimina'tingi v *tainer so as Lto bring them into Lgrippin'g-con'- tact Lwith 'th'eQbf'ait,' thereby tightlypholdingi -v i the need of a closure for .either'onboth ends I of the holder; Furthermore, by ifeaso'nilofthe i use of transparent-materialin" constructingv 1 the novel,. holder,'the-baitmay be inspectedV without removing ytheflsame from the con- Q -1,7ss,674

, tainer, thereby permitting the fisherman to inspect any number of baits thus contained Within the holde-rs and select 'the desired bait Without the need of Withdrawing the baits 3 from their receptacles;

In use, the several artificial baits are placed i individually in .the separate. holders andV the latter'in'ay be plaicedin typeof receptaele; together With the fish lines yand other tackle77 m'and When it is desiredto employ one of the baits the user may, by mere-:lv*glalne-i-iisolfover"1 V the several holders With their contained lures or baits, select vthe one desired an'd'reinove'itl' i from its container for use. Afterbeing used- 1,5 the bait is returned to its holderV in the nian-k ner -heretofore described and retu-rned tor-:the

Vlarger receptacle-or-pl-aced in the pocket of theacloth-ing; astv desired.- ,By; means-:off the holder the fish hoeks/arefnicely. :held in fpos-i- 20 .tion soIas-toavoid any liabilfity'of thei-rpoints 1 v 'engaging Aor becomingv entangled :With other apparatus'withiwhichit-may belstored;.:and

furthermorg. by reason of lthe -factwtliat 1 an openr ended container. isf. used the-airris; al-

-.25 loWed'to circulate aboutthe bait and-:thus

J'a'o-ili-tates-its'7 drying out. after uses Fromithe foregoing'deseription takenlin 9 connection W1th; the-acconipanyingfd-rawng, vv; 1

it Will beobserved -tha-t'I have devisedan-exf :in cee'dingly simple and inexpensive construotion *of ba-it' holder- Whieh .is' Vcoinprisedi solely;

v of4 a single sheet of: res-ilientnnaterialll Whi'ch ,v .is -folded upon itself intosubstantially. oval or ellipticalfor'in With-its e cl es1'secure/dte- 35 getherby a simple.fasteningineans 'It-Will i i v alsov bev observed: that in addition toflthesim- :plici-ty and'inexpensivenessof the'holder. th'e y I same provides a. convenient and-[practical means for storing a-rtficialbaits .for .permit- 40 ting theirra-pid drying-outfi'after u'se, andfor permi-ttingrv 'the i selection of. the bait. desired from'- among a. number ofLba-itsL similarly. Stored With: the i least Vpossible inconven-ienoe. Moreover, thisoonstruction'of holder-.also al- 45 lows the ready removal of'thefllurezfromthe container even Withthe usevof oneSjhan-d, i'f occasio'n should-a'riser j 2 g i j Inv accordance With i the gpat'eIn-tf sta'tutes I have described What I now believe toflbethe M preferred-embodimentoflmy inventiom but f V*it Will be readily .understoodth'atymnor changes iny details of constructionmay bo made. Without departin'g Vfrom the Vessential wfeatures of the inventionzand all such inodifi- .cations are intended -to I be included-I Within thescope of the appendediclainry,

' "lVha-t I claim as new and! desire to :seeur I byv Letters Patent. vis:f -V i v Ahbait holder eoinprsing'ra' single-sheetof V f? V'transparent inaterial-doubled u-pon-Vitselffinto i anopen-ended-containerof substantially oval crosssection, andmeansfor permanentlyi securingtogether the overlapping edges of said Qsjheet. r i v i KENT Wf HUGHES; 

